Problems / combinatorics
combinatorics / Spectral graph theory
Graffiti Conjecture 806
Let S be the set of square-free integers in [2,n] and G=PR[S] the graph on S in which two integers are adjacent when they are not coprime. From the cases n≤100 and about twenty further values n≤200, Graffiti conjectured that the largest adjacency eigenvalue λ1(G) is at most the number of distinct vertex degrees.
False. At n=51 the graph has 31 vertices, 11 distinct degrees and λ1>11.846; the conjecture fails again for every n from 786 to 5000, and the deficit λ1−D grows roughly linearly in n, so no additive correction λ1≤D+C survives either.